Leadership Symposium

8th Leadership Symposium
Hosted by the University of Arts in Poznan, Poland
29 November - 1 December 2017

We would like to thank the 80 delegates, the speakers, the steering group and our hosts University of the Arts in Poznan for an engaging 8th ELIA Leadership Symposium.

During the three-day programme delegates have interacted with high profile keynote speakers, actively participated in fruitful discussions, visited the cultural institutions across the city and enjoyed the many networking opportunities.

Leadership Symposium Poznan - DAY 1

Leadership Symposium Poznan - DAY 2

Leadership Symposium Poznan - DAY 3

Theme

Heritage/Transition/Values

Poland, a country that repeatedly experienced transitions during the last centuries, will ensure delegates an inspiring context for the identified theme: Heritage/Transition/Values

Heritage says something about origins, it connects people to a shared belief system; it is often used as a political tool to further nationalistic goals or to create a feeling of togetherness. Since 1989, the former Eastern Bloc countries have been in a permanent state of transition; this sense of change is nowadays universal, urging leaders around the world to re-examine their values.

So how do leaders of Higher Arts Education Institutions and Universities deal with these facets of heritage? Which ideas and value systems do we still consider valid? How do we position ourselves, guide our lecturers and prepare our students?

By sharing our experiences, doubts and hopes with peers, we will explore new discourses and investigate possible future solutions.

Registration

Registration
REGISTRATION IS NOW CLOSED!

Registration Deadlines

Early Bird Members Fee Deadline 31 July 2017
Regular Members Fee Deadline 20 November 2017

FEES

Early Bird Members Fee [on or before 31 July 2017] EUR 850

Regular Members Fee [after 31 July 2017] EUR 950

Non-member Fee EUR 1850

Accompanying person Fee EUR 250

The registration fee includes access to all Symposium sessions, materials, publications, related events, welcome drink, two dinners and two lunches.

For partners travelling with delegates, the accompanying person fee includes attendances to two dinners, cultural events and other social events.

A surcharge of 5% service costs is added to the fee.

In order to facilitate participation from institutions in countries with lower financial capability, a restricted number of reduced fees will be available.
In case you would like to apply for a reduced fee, please contact ELIA Conference Manager at janja.ferenc[at]elia-artschools.org

Terms & Conditions

Please notice that by registering for this event, you accept our terms and conditions. These include the cancellation policy and permission to use or publish any videos or photographs recorded by ELIA during the event.

Speakers

Franco Bianchini is Professor of Cultural Policy and Director of the Institute for Research on Culture and the Creative Industries at the University of Hull, UK. From 2007-2016 he was Professor of Cultural Policy and Planning at Leeds Beckett University, UK. From 2010-2014 he was a member of the team preparing the successful bid by the city of Matera, in Southern Italy, for the title of European Capital of Culture for 2019.

Head of the Visual Culture Research Center (VCRC, Kyiv) and an editor of the Political Critique magazine (Ukrainian edition). He works as a lecturer at the Cultural Studies Department of the National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy and holds a PhD in philosophy (aesthetics).

Polish writer, a practitioner of ideas, philosopher, culture animator, theatre director, editor. Co-founder and president of the Borderland Foundation (1990) and director of the Centre “Borderland of Arts, Cultures and Nations” in Sejny.

A native of Delhi, India where he studied printmaking and painting at the College of Art; Shaurya Kumar graduated with his MFA from the University of Tennessee, Knoxville in 2007. Since 2001, Kumar has been involved in numerous prestigious research projects, like “The Paintings of India” (a series of 26 documentary films on the painting tradition of India); "Handmade in India" (an encyclopedia on the handicraft traditions of India); and digital restorations of 6th century Buddhist mural paintings from the caves of Ajanta. Kumar’s research is focused on creating works which appreciate and appropriate new media while highlighting the dangers of its longevity; and the disconnect between the virtual and the real.

Art historian, editor and curator. She led the Central and Eastern European branch of MoMA’s global research initiative, C-MAP, as Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow and co-edited the Museum’s digital publication platform. Moskalewicz curated the Polish Pavilion at the 56th Venice Biennale (2015).

Ása Richardsdóttir is the project leader of Ice Hot Reykjavík 2018, the biannual Nordic Dance Platform and ambassador for the Nordic Culture Fund. Ása has led a versatile career in arts, culture, academia, banking, politics and media. She was a television reporter at RÚV Iceland, founder of theatre, Kaffileikhusid, executive director of Iceland Dance Company, president of Performing Arts Iceland and creative producer for various artistic projects. After the collapse of the Icelandic bank system in 2008 she was appointed one of five directors of the board of the New Landsbankinn, the largest resurrected bank in Iceland.

Polish sociologist, writer and activist. Before starting his academic career, Sowa worked as a curator at the Center for Contemporary Art “Bunkier Sztuki” in Kraków and as a journalist for the Polish Public Radio. He is active in the field of autonomous education and independent cultural animation.

Russell Willis Taylor is a former President and CEO of the National Arts Strategies (U.S.). While at the National Arts Strategies (NAS), Taylor led the organization to become the U.S. leader of executive education for nonprofit cultural leaders. She was also instrumental in creating free online arts leadership courses, with a graduate certificate program that broke the price barriers in an effort to attract a more diverse range of leaders. She currently works as a senior consultant to oversee leadership programs at Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity in Canada.

Practical information

City of Poznan

The capital of Wielkopolska, located at the very heart of the province, is a city which has for hundreds of years been one of Poland’s largest and most developed in both the economic and cultural sphere. Home to over half a million people, Poznan is situated at the crossroads of Europe’s most important transport routes, linking Moscow with Berlin and Paris, and Prague with the Baltic coast. This location provided favourable conditions for the co-existence of many nationalities and cultures, in this way shaping the identity of Poznań as a city and also the unique character of its residents. It is said that Poznanians are prudent, consistent and well organised.

Poznań is famous both for its trade fair facilities and rich trading traditions, its interesting sights, original cuisine and welcoming atmosphere. It is the city where the modern meets tradition and history, creating a mosaic which is one of a kind and unique.

Host

The 8th ELIA Leadership Symposium is organised in partnership with University of Arts in Poznan.

The University of Arts in Poznan celebrates its 100th anniversary in 2019. Over the years, it has repeatedly changed its name but has always remained faithful to the idea of pluralism of artistic, aesthetic and design doctrines. The University offers a diversity of approaches and ideas and is thus a meeting place open to the latest trends in art. As a result, it has the widest educational offer of all art schools in Poland and an international profile. It is also the only higher school of fine arts with the status of a university. More than 250 members of the teaching staff (renowned artists, art scholars, curators, researchers and designers) run eight departments, providing education to nearly 1,500 students.

If you are having problems with the payment, you can also contact ELIA Conference Manager Janja Ferenc at janja.ferenc[at]elia-artschools.org for further assistance.

Mobile visits

Thursday 30 November
14.00 - 17.00hrs

Poznan is a city where the modern meets tradition and history, creating a mosaic which is one of a kind and unique. Artists and other creatives of all disciplines live and work here. So as to allow delegates to engage with the city in a broader sense, the Mobile Visits programme has been designed. All sessions will take conference participants to an interesting place in the city where they will meet practitioners and cultural leaders. Through dialogue with these experts, delegates will explore the relationship between art, the artist, the place and their combined connection to their city.

During the registration, delegates will select which Mobile Visit they would like to attend.

Depending on the tours, participants will take transportation or follow a route by foot.

1. Zamek Cultural Centre

Poznan's ZAMEK is one of the largest cultural institutions in the country. Each year, the institution hosts 2,500 events which both showcase and stimulate the development of the most interesting phenomena in culture. The spaces and interiors of ZAMEK are venues where one sees the interfacing and mutually complementary presence of visual arts, theatre, film, music and literature.
The programme relies both on the tried and tested forms of expression (e.g. concerts, performances, exhibitions, soirees and literary meetings, film screenings) as well as on experimental artistic undertakings by embarking on new types of activities, often site-specific ones. These ventures are much aided by ZAMEK’s artist-in-residence programme.
ZAMEK is also known as the former Imperial Castle, the last and youngest monarchical residence in Europe, created at the beginning of the 20th century for German Emperor Wilhelm II. After WW1, it housed, among others, the Mathematical Department of the Poznań University, whose alumni broke the code of the German ciphering machine - Enigma. During WW2 the castle was completely remodelled and made into the official quarters of Adolf Hitler.

2. Concordia Design

Visit Concordia Design and meet its CEO Ewa Voelkel

Concordia Design is the centre of creativity, design and business located in the very centre of Poznań, in the renovated Old Printing House. The building dates back to the first half of the 19th century. In 1850 a printing shop was established here, and after Poland regained independence the place was named Concordia. The current owners decided to preserve the name, complementing it with the main area of their interest, namely design.During the renovation process, the new owners managed to maintain the unique ambience of the building and reveal its true beauty. The old walls are now fitted with cutting-edge solutions and facilities, making Concordia Design an ideal place for work, for meetings, and for organising various events.
It is also a creative business incubator with offices for no less than 30 young companies representing various sectors – from fashion to IT. Concordia Design is the centre of creativity, design and business and it remains open to interesting communities, serving as a meeting platform for bloggers (BLOGTej) or the last two editions of TEDxPoznan conference.

3. Theatre of the Eighth Day

Visit the T8D and meet its director, Małgorzata Grupińska-Bis with its famous ensemble which core has not changed for the last 40 years: Ewa Wójciak, Adam Borowski, Marcin Kęszycki and Tadeusz Janiszewski. Learn about Theater's amazing history and take a look at its archive (including films and pictures).

Theatre of the Eighth Day (Teatr Osmego Dnia) was founded in 1964 as one of the most original and most significant groups of the very animated student theatre movement from which Polish alternative theatre arose. Its name derives from the Polish poet Konstanty Ildefons Galczynski: "On the seventh day, the Lord God rested, and on the eighth, He created theatre". But the theatre's name carried yet another meaning - the "eighth day" symbolised a day of freedom that existed outside the official calendar. The theatre's style was influenced mostly by the work of Grotowski, but the group developed their own acting method and their own approach to creating performances through group acting improvisations. Their independence and their willingness to speak with their own voice about the surrounding world and the individual's existence entangled in this world all got the group into trouble with the Communist state apparatus, even though it had never been intended as a political theatre of opposition. Kept under surveillance by the secret police, plagued by the regular police, and accused of committing common crimes, the theatre managed to create some of the most important Polish performances of the seventies, an example of extraordinary creative vitality and determination, both human and artistic.

4. Poznan National Museum

Visit Poznan National Museum and join guided tour

National Museum in Poznań exists from 1857. It is one of the oldest, biggest and most important museums in Poland. Its rich and diverse holdings preserve and present to the public the legacy of centuries and generations, of knowledge, effort and passion of those who have gathered these artworks, among which there are gems fit for any prestigious world gallery. Made in different centuries and at different times, they await the visitors, ready to offer them an unforgettable experience.

5. Poznan Opera House

Explore Poznan Opera House, its workshops and renovated interiors and meet with the General Manager of the Opera, Renata Borowska-Juszczyńska

Poznań Opera House symbolises over a 100-years history of Polish opera. The Opera House was built at the beginning of 20th century in the centre of Poznan, a town with an unusually rich tradition of musical life.
Already shortly after the inauguration, Poznan Grand Theatre gained the opinion of a leading opera stage in Poland and until the present day its ensemble belongs to the best artistic troupes in this part of Europe. The diversified repertoire includes both the classical operas and the contemporary compositions with particular consideration of Polish operas. A young and perfectly educated corps de ballet presents performances arranged in different styles.

6. Site-specific cultural venues

Poznan is home to almost 4100 non-governmental organisations, many of them operating in the field of culture. Young people bravely take over crumbling buildings and post-industrial spaces turning them into vital cultural centres. You will have the opportunity to visit and meet interesting initiatives, like:

Tramwajarza Dom (The Tramway House) – a neo-baroque cultural and residential complex built in the years of 1925 - 1927 in Poznan, designed by Adam Ballenstaedt. The space was initially intended for the employees as of the Poznań Electric Railway as their accommodation space as well as cultural centre. Now it is managed by Estrada Poznańska which offers wide programme with aim to integrate different age groups and local communities through cultural and social activities, towards building an open, civil society.

Recently opened Hala Towarzyska (The Social Assembly Hall) is the result of yet another grassroots movement. The space is located in the post-industrial interior of the hall with large windows which crosses the railroad tracks. The space is still being arranged, with the aim to create space with bars, exhibitors' stands, restaurateurs and a place for different artists.

One of Poznań’s most original spots, the seasonal KontenerART occupies a desolate stretch of grass along the Warta River that makes finding the unusual venue feel like a drink and music concert-worthy achievement. KontenerART is, co-financed by the City of Poznan is a great example of reviving of Warta waterfront and development of post-industrial spaces. Operated by the acclaimed Poznan artists Ewa and Zbigniew Lowzyl it is an outdoor mobile centre of culture, art and recreation which consists a stack of artistically arranged ship containers, e few of them serving as a food court and a bar.

Poznan Home Dinners

Thusrday 30 November
20:00hrs

To experience the local cuisine and hospitality, on Thursday evening the Poznan Home Dinners will take place. Delegates groups will be hosted for the evening at the homes of local artists and arts academics. At registrations, delegates will find information on their evening dinner host. For logistic reasons, delegates are kindly requested to respect the assigned allocation.

Performance at Nowy Theatre (optional)

December 1
17:00

Delegates of the Leadership Symposium are invited to attend the performance titled Head Girth at Nowy Theatre. Please, note that the attendance to performance is optional and not part of the official programme of Leadership Symposium. Therefore, we invite you to arrange your reservation for the performance and purchase the tickets here.

However, the organising staff would be happy to assist you whether you have any questions about the performance and reservation.

About Head Girth

A production based on Włodzimierz Nowak’s coverage entitled HEAD GIRTH, using fragments of the book THE JANISSARY SCHOOL, LETTERS TO HIS GERMAN FRIEND by Alojzy Twardecki and various press and archival materials.

This is a story of the victims of Lebensborn: children who in the course of historical changes had to change their nationality, language and mothers twice; and people who defied their misconceptions despite the nightmare of war, learning to live with the burden of their harrowing experiences. Young characters are vulnerable not only in the face of war but above all when confronted with the callousness of adults who deprive them of their families and identity in the name of a national agenda.

Photo credits: Jakub Wittchen

Tours

Poznan is a city with rich history and modern perspectives. Explore the city centre and its surroundings by joining guided tours. Please notice that these optional city visits or tours are not an official part of the Leadership Symposium and that participation takes place on your own, which may include additional costs. However, the organizing staff will be happily of service and assist you if you wish to participate in one of the suggested city visits or tours.

Optional city visits or tours include the following:

1. Ostrów Tumski (Cathedral Island) and Śródka – Here Poland began!

The oldest part of Poznań, an island between the rivers of Warta and Cybina. It’s highly probable that Mieszko I was baptized on Ostrów Tumski in the year 966, the event which was considered to be the beginning of the Polish State. Today it is incredibly picturesque and quiet place, an oasis of calm at the heart of the conurbation of 1 million people!

Duration: 1,5 - 2 hrs

2. Old Town – Billy Goats and much more!

The Old Town was created in 1253, when Poznań was built again on the left bank of the Warta River (the fortified settlement on Cathedral Island was already too small). Today it’s the most popular place among tourists, full of charming corners, beautiful townhouses and admirable monuments, with Town Hall and Parish Church as top attractions.

Duration: 1,5 - 2 hrs

3. From Freedom Square to Castle Quarter

If you look for the places in Poznań, where the most important events happened in the 19th and 20th century you should certainly visit the area between Freedom Square and Castle Quarter. This walk will show you both great history (struggle with Prussian occupants, Greater Poland Uprising, Enigma, The Poznań June 1956) and interesting architecture (The Raczyński Library, The Round House, Castle Quarter).

4. Visit to Rogalin Palace

Visit this magnificent baroque-classisistic palace of the Raczynski Family, built in 1770s. The complex consists of a palace with two out-buildings, a french-style park and horse-cabs house. In the right (northern) out-buldings there’s a collection of rememberances of Edward Raczynski, the last president of Poland in exile.

5. Visit to Kornik Castle

Its beginnings go back to the Middle Ages when the powerful Górka family were the owners of Kórnik. It is most likely the Górka family that initiated the building of the castle. Originally built in 1430, the brick fortified creation, surrounded by a moat could be approached over a drawbridge and a portcullis. Some parts of old walls and cellars survived to this day. In the 16th century the castle was rebuilt in the Renaissance style, which gave the castle its outstanding elegance. In the 18th century it underwent most alterations as Teofila Szołdrska Potulicka from the Działyński family had it rebuilt in the style of something much more palatial in feel. Two annexes at the sides of the castle were symmetrically added. At the end of the 19th century Tytus Działyński, the owner of the estate, gave the castle a picturesque fortified character. An additional floor was built and rectangular towers were added to the building from the south side. The time between the November Insurrection of 1830 and the interwar period was not kind to the castle. The lowering of groundwater level, overloading walls and shocks caused by the army marching led to enormous damage. After World War II, in 1947, the extensive restoration works started and allowed this neo-Gothic style castle to gain its splendour.

​Franco Bianchini

Franco Bianchini is Professor of Cultural Policy and Director of the Institute for Research on Culture and the Creative Industries at the University of Hull, UK. From 2007-2016 he was Professor of Cultural Policy and Planning at Leeds Beckett University, UK.

From 2010-2014 he was a member of the team preparing the successful bid by the city of Matera, in Southern Italy, for the title of European Capital of Culture for 2019.

His research interests range from the role of culture in urban regeneration (with a particular focus on port cities and on European Cities/Capitals of Culture), to cultural diversity and interculturalism as resources for innovation in urban policy, and the development of urban cultural strategies in the context of the current political, economic and environmental crises.

Vasyl Cherepanyn

Vasyl Cherepanyn is Head of the Visual Culture Research Center (VCRC, Kyiv) and an editor of the Political Critique magazine (Ukrainian edition). He works as a lecturer at the Cultural Studies Department of the National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy and holds a Ph.D. in philosophy (aesthetics). Also he worked as a guest lecturer at European University Viadrina in Frankfurt (Oder), Germany, at the "Political Critique" Institute for Advanced Studies in Warsaw, Poland, and at Greifswald University, Germany.

He was also a visiting fellow at the Institute for Human Sciences in Vienna, Austria. In 2015, VCRC has received the European Cultural Foundation's Princess Margriet Award for Culture for its activities. Visual Culture Research Center was also the organizer of The School of Kyiv – Kyiv Biennial 2015.

Photo credits: Bram Belloni/ Forum on European Culture

Krzystof Czyżewski

Co-founder and president of the Borderland Foundation (1990) and director of the Centre “Borderland of Arts, Cultures and Nations” in Sejny. Together with his team, in Krasnogruda on the Polish-Lithuanian border, he revitalized a manor house once belonged to
Czesław Miłosz family, and initiated there an International Center for Dialog (2011).

Among his books of poetry and essays are The Path of the Borderland (2001), Line of Return (2008), Trust & Identity: A Handbook of Dialog (2011), Miłosz – Dialog – Borderland (2013), Miłosz. A Connective Tissue (2014), The Krasnogruda Bridge. A Bridge-Builder’s Toolkit (2016), and A Small Center of the World. Notes of the Practitioner of Ides (2017).

Initiator of intercultural dialogue programs in Europe, Caucasus, Israel, Central Asia, Indonesia, Bhutan and USA. Teacher and lecturer – from 2015 a visiting professor at Rutgers University and University of Bologna.

His recent theatre productions include Three Women. Metamorphosis of the Medea’s Myth in Ovid and Picasso (2014) and The Mystery of the Bridge (2015).

In 2008 he was nominated as Ambassador of European Year of Intercultural Dialog (Brussels). He is a laureate of Dan David Prize 2014 and Irena Sendlerowa Prize 2015.

Shaurya Kumar

A native of Delhi, India where he studied printmaking and painting at the College of Art; Shaurya Kumar graduated with his MFA from the University of Tennessee, Knoxville in 2007. Since 2001, Kumar has been involved in numerous prestigious research projects, like “The Paintings of India” (a series of 26 documentary films on the painting tradition of India); "Handmade in India" (an encyclopedia on the handicraft traditions of India); and digital restorations of 6th century Buddhist mural paintings from the caves of Ajanta.

Kumar has presented research and scholarly papers at institutions including the Art Institute of Chicago, College Art Association, SGC International, International Symposium for Electronic Arts (ISEA), International Digital Media Arts Association (iDMAa) among others.

Shaurya Kumar currently lives and works in Chicago, IL and teaches at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.

Magdalena Moskalewicz

Magdalena Moskalewicz, born in Warsaw in 1984, is an art historian, curator, editor, and teacher who researches art from (the former) Eastern Europe from the early avant-gardes until today. In her scholarly, editorial, and curatorial work, Moskalewicz critically investigates local art histories and representations of identities in order to reshape dominant historical narratives. To that end, she served as Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral C-MAP Fellow at The Museum of Modern Art in New York, where she led a research group focusing on experimental art from Central and Eastern Europe as a part of MoMA’s global research initiative, C-MAP (2012-2015). Moskalewicz’s research-based curatorial practice brings together contemporary art, art history, critical theory, and cultural anthropology. In 2015, she curated Halka/Haiti 18°48’05″N 72°23’01″W: C.T. Jasper and Joanna Malinowska for the Polish Pavilion at the 56th Venice Biennale and edited a book of the same title (Inventory Press & Zachęta, 2015). Her recent curatorial and editorial project The Travellers: Voyage and Migration in New Art from Central and Eastern Europe examines issues of migration, displacement, and accelerated global mobility in relation to identity formation in works by artist-migrants from a number of postsocialist countries. (On view at Kumu Art Museum in Tallinn until Jan 28, 2018; book published by Lugemik, 2017.) Moskalewicz’s editorial experience

includes running the Polish contemporary art monthly magazine Arteon and spearheading a number of digital humanities publications for MoMA’s digital platform for collaborative research, post.

Moskalewicz was awarded a PhD in art history from Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznan for her research into Polish art of the 1960s. She has taught at Adam Mickiewicz Universty in Poznań, New York University, Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh. She is currently based in Chicago, where she teaches at The School of The Art Institute of Chicago.

Ása Richardsdóttir

Ása has led a versatile career in arts, culture, academia, banking, politics and media, during three decades. She was a television reporter at RÚV State Television Iceland, founder of theatre, Kaffileikhusid, executive director of Iceland Dance Company, president of Performing Arts Iceland and creative producer for various artistic projects. She has led various international networking events, festivals and projects and been a catalyst in bringing international attention to Icelandic performing arts and Nordic dance.
Asa has tought artistic management courses at the University of Iceland, the Iceland Academy of the Arts and at Bifröst University since the year 2001 and, since 2009 at various venues in Europe. In 2017 she co-authored a guide for artists and producers who wish to work collaboratively and internationally, which can be downloaded for free on www.itstartswithaconversation.org

Ása has a BA – honours degree in international relations and politics from the University of Kent at Canterbury, a diploma in European Cultural management / Fondation Marcel Hicter programme and finally she attained her MBA degree from Reykjavik University in 2003
After the collapse of the Icelandic bank system in 2008 she was appointed one of five directors of the board of the New Landsbankinn, the largest resurrected bank in Iceland and served on the board for 2 years.
Ása is active in politics, member of the Women’s alliance and later the Social Democratic alliance and was elected as city councillor in 2014.

Jan Sowa

Jan Sowa is a dialectical materialist, social theorist and researcher. He studied at the Jagiellonian University in Kraków, Poland and University Paris VIII in Saint-Denis, France. He holds a PhD in sociology and a habilitation in cultural studies. His research and teaching assignments took him to several universities in Poland and abroad, recently, the University of São Paulo and Warsaw University. He is a member of the Committee on Cultural Studies of the Polish Academy of Sciences.

Jan Sowa edited and authored several books and published numerous articles in Poland and abroad (in France, United States, Mexico, Czech Republic and others). A collection of essays "A Joy Forever: Political Economy of Social Creativity", that he co-edited, including articles by Luc Boltanski, Massimiliano Tomba, Isabelle Graw and Gigi Roggero appeared with MayFly Books (London) in 2015.

Russell Willis Taylor

Russell Willis Taylor, currently Interim Vice President for Arts and Leadership at Banff Centre, is the former CEO of National Arts Strategies and former Executive Director of the English National Opera in London. ​Russell is an internationally known and recognized speaker and consultant.

She serves on the boards of the Salzburg Global Seminar, The Charlottesville

Community Foundation, the British Council's Arts & Creative Economy Advisory Group, Fractured Atlas. and is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts. In 2013, Russell was honored with the International Citation of Merit by the International Society for the Performing Arts, for her lifetime achievement of distinguished service to the performing arts.

Venue

Stary Browar
Słodownia +2
Półwiejska 42
61-888 Poznań

The main venue for the 8th Leadership Symposium is Stary Browar (the old brewery) Shopping, Arts and Business Center, located in the center of Poznan. Beside the conference space, the building also features a shopping mall and art gallery, where visitors can go shopping and take part in numerous exhibitions and cultural events as well.

Hotels & Accommodation

HOTELS FILLING UP FAST, DON'T MISS OUT!

Delegates are advised to book accommodation at the earliest convenience. Delegates may use the IBB Andersia hotel that is within walking distance from the venue and where they can use a special price. Alternatively delegates can book at any of the other recommended hotels on a first come, first serve basis. Please find both listings directly below:

Suggested hotel

The delegates of the 8th ELIA Leadership Symposium are invited to book their rooms at IBB Andersia Hotel, where they can use a special price rate with the discount code. The discount code will be provided to the delegates when submitting the registration form.

IBB Andersia Hotel

IBB Andersia Hotel Conference & SPA is a design hotel, located by the Stary Browar Shopping Centre in central Poznań. The rooms feature glass-covered bathrooms with floor heating and free Wi-Fi. Stare Miasto District is a great choice for travellers interested in food, restaurants and atmosphere.Deadline for the discounted fee: 31 October

Other recommended hotels

Please book directly with the hotel. Any bookings will depend on availability and on a first come first serve basis.

Travel & Getting Around

Travel

By plane

Poznan Airport is located 7 km from the city centre, in the vicinity of the route leading directly to the major city points and next to the road out of Poznań to Berlin and Warsaw. It is possible to get to the city centre from the airport using line 59, which is going directly to Railway Station.

By train

All trains arriving in Poznań stop at Poznań Main Railway Station (Poznań Główny).

The public transport system in Poznań consists of tram and bus networks.

See & Do

Poznań is a place where the energy of the New Europe is merged with the civilisation of the West. A metropolis with over half-a-million residents, Poznań is situated in the most economically developed region of Poland, closer to Berlin than to Warsaw. Poznanians can be counted on - they are well-educated, competent and welcoming. There are many sightseeing activities in Poznan.

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